Falko, I followed the same instructions. At what point did it create a table in the DB for the users? If so what is the DB name and table name? I can bring up the squirrelmail page but none of the username and passwords work. I found the following DBs:

Im not placing any guarantee on this but i had a problem with this installation on debian etch which i cured and carried over to the perfect debian lenny install, im not using Ispconfig but i removed all instances of "proxy:" from the mysql statements in postfix/main.cf

White, Thanks I tried you solution but still no luck. What was it you were saying about mail_admin and mail_admin_password? I followed the directions from here http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...-ispconfig3-p5 and it never mentioned anything about setting up passwords.

Okay I am on to something. I had to change my hostname after the installation. I think I might have missed a few places. I sent an email from the server and was able to retrieve it but its from root@wronghostname.server.com instead of root@righthostname.server.com. Where is this stored on the mailserver and where can I change it? I checked /etc/courier/imapd.cnf and /etc/courier/pop3d.cnf.

Okay I played around and re-configured postfix and changed the hostname for the mailserver. Then I logged into squirrelmail using name@hostname.server.com. Now my next question is how do you change the server so the email address is just name@server.com like most emails???

Also it seems like my emails can't be received my squirrelmail. I can see I have mail when I login by ssh but I cant get to them by squirrelmail.

Okay I played around and re-configured postfix and changed the hostname for the mailserver. Then I logged into squirrelmail using name@hostname.server.com. Now my next question is how do you change the server so the email address is just name@server.com like most emails???

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You must set the correct sender address in your email client (e.g. SquirrelMail, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.).

Sorry for not understanding there just wasn't any explanation on how to create an email user or how to login to squirrelmail. I think I figured it out but i can only send emails from squirrelmail. Any ideas where to look for that. Or is that tied into the fact I have a mailbox setup in ISPconfig3 and a system user with the same name?

As I said before that is the weird thing. If I send an email from the working squirrelmail account to say a yahoo email, it works. When I send an email from the yahoo email account to my squirrelmail account. I can't view it in squirrelmail but I can see it in my ssh. Does creating a virtual email and a system email with the same name cause problems??

Also as mentioned, I created a new virtual emails in ISPconfig3 and I can't login into it in squirrelmail. this user does not exist in the system. I just get error messages:

ERROR: Could not complete request.
Query: SELECT "INBOX"
Reason Given: Unable to open this mailbox.